CITY OF NORFOLK PURCHASING

Required Registration
In order to provide contractual services to the City of Norfolk, you must first register on the Norfolk Vendor Self Service System Website, located on the Purchasing Department's website. You should also sign up to be notified when new bid opportunities are posted. To do so visit: http://www.norfolk.gov/list.aspx?Mode=Subscribe#bids. If you need assistance, the Customer Resource Center can be reached by email at or by phone at 757-664-4787.

City of Norfolk Purchasing Sites

Click here for current Bids, Notices and RFP’s for the City of Norfolk.

Click here for current Business Opportunities for the City of Norfolk.

STATE PROCUREMENT

Required Registration Information
In order to provide contractual services to the Commonwealth of Virginia, you must go to Virginia State Buyer website and register at Virginia's Procurement Portal (EVA) and provide the following information:

Descriptors for your business and location names that buyers will recognize:

The Headquarter Legal Name of your company is what buyers search on.

The location name is the sub search that they do to distinguish between different ordering locations.

U. S. Tax ID: This is the 9 digit Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) or Social Security number used by the organization.

If you are a foreign Vendor please follow the instructions to provided additional information on the website.

DUNS Number.

Address that orders should be sent to- street address; e-mail; telephone and fax numbers; address where solicitation invitations should be sent.

Address where invoices or bills should be sent.

Primary contact person for each address; contact name; street address; e-mail; telephone and fax numbers; other staff that you want to setup with logins.

Charge card(s) information.- It is to your advantage to accept charge cards, in particular MasterCard. MasterCard is the standard state purchasing card. Localities may use other types of charge cards. If you do not know the credit card level when prompted, please select. If you accept MasterCard, please send an e-mail with your Tax ID and other company info to and the vendors list will be updated for you.

State Procurement Site

Virginia State Procurement Site- Click here for the Procurement and Contracting Site for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

FEDERAL PROCUREMENT

Required Registration Information
In order to provide contractual services to the federal government, you must register with Dun and Bradstreet (DUNS Number) and System for Award Management (SAM). To register for a DUNS number, go to http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform or call 1.866.705.5711. You will need the following information:

Legal Name

Tradestyle, Doing Business As (DBA), or other name by which your organization is commonly recognized

Physical Address, City, State and Zip Code

Mailing Address (if separate)

Telephone Number

Contact Name

SIC Code (Line of Business)

Number of Employees at your location

Headquarters name and address (if there is a reporting relationship to a parent corporate entity)